Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 25
After Xiang Yu incorporated this part of the Southern Huns rebels, he continued to fight with the remaining part of the rebels. During the battle with Xiang Yu, he suffered several consecutive losses. These rebels lost their armor and armor, and some of them were directly They broke up and fled, while some surrendered to Xiang Yu.

At the beginning, Xiang Yu's troops were only 200 people, plus various logistics personnel, there were only 500 people in total. As a result, after several battles with these Southern Huns rebels, the number of soldiers not only did not decrease, but they fought more and more. Almost all the rebels were wiped out. The number of fighters in the entire army has reached more than 1000, and there are more than 2000 close to 3000 including logistics personnel.

Xiang Yu felt that the number of people who surrendered to him was indeed a bit too much. His army was mainly focused on an elite, and too many people would become a burden. Therefore, Xiang Yu carefully screened these soldiers who surrendered, and only left A very small number of elite soldiers, and the rest of them Xiang Yu handed them back to the Southern Huns Shanyu Qiangqu at this time.

Qiang Qu Shanyu was very happy that Xiang Yu helped him destroy the rebels, and he did not pursue those who surrendered. He only rearranged them. However, one of the reasons for their previous rebellion was the Shan Yu was dissatisfied, and he was also very dissatisfied that the Huns could only live within the arranged range. Many people were not satisfied with Xiang Yu's arrangement.

Many of them hope that Xiang Yu can reconsider. They would rather follow Xiang Yu than return to the original place of the Southern Huns and be ruled by the Shan Yu who they feel is incompetent. In this way, the situation becomes very embarrassing. After all, he is Shan Yu at any rate, the nominal supreme leader of these Southern Huns, and as a result, the people under his rule would rather follow Xiang Yu than him.

Xiang Yu was actually quite uncomfortable. His purpose of re-handing these rebels to Shan Yu was not to embarrass Shan Yu. Instead of becoming the best of all things as he expected, this matter now made himself and Shan Yu feel uncomfortable. The three parties, the surrender of the rebels, are in some kind of stalemate.

In the end, Shan Yu had no choice but to come up with a compromise plan, let those rebels who were willing to follow Xiang Yu follow Xiang Yu, and let him take over the rest. In this way, Xiang Yu originally planned to keep only 500 elite troops, and in the end he could not There are still about 800 troops left, and the total number of logistics is about 500, and the remaining more than 1000 surrendered rebels returned to Shan Yu's rule.

In any case, this matter can be regarded as a relatively satisfactory solution. From this matter, we can also see how embarrassing the actual status of the Southern Huns Chanyu was at this time. Although he is still the supreme ruler of the Southern Huns in name However, they have actually lost a large part of their control over the Southern Huns. In many matters, as long as they are related to the Eastern Han, they often have to give priority to the interests of the Eastern Han. Without the decision-making power, even some officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty with low official positions were often difficult to provoke, because behind them was the entire Eastern Han Dynasty.

There is no doubt that the strengthening of the Eastern Han Dynasty’s control over the Shanyu of the Southern Huns was a double-edged sword. Most of the guards around the Shanyu of the Southern Huns were elite soldiers assigned by the Eastern Han Dynasty. They simultaneously protected, monitored and controlled the Shanyu. Shanyu did not dare to act rashly. As time went by, Shanyu's position in the hearts of the Southern Huns became more and more precarious. In this way, it was necessary to rely on the power of the Eastern Han Dynasty to maintain Shanyu's superficial rule. Further weaken the Chanyu's real power and status in the hearts of the people.

This can be said to be an unsolvable endless loop. Perhaps since the Southern Huns merged into the Eastern Han Dynasty in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, this day was already doomed, but when the Eastern Han Dynasty was still strong enough, there were still enough resources to be able to use it every year. Assistance was given to the Southern Huns, and there was enough army control ability to maintain the rule of the Southern Huns. However, with the changes in the entire political situation in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the entire empire gradually declined and collapsed from within, and the ability to control the border areas would only be getting weaker and weaker.

However, the Qiang, Huns, and Xianbei people in the border areas are constantly initiating rebellion or invasion, and with the corruption and weakness of the central government, the political struggles of eunuchs, foreign relatives, and gentry classes are becoming more and more serious. The central government of the Eastern Han Dynasty has gradually been unable to rely on its own central army to maintain rule over these border areas.

Therefore, talents like Dong Zhuo can gradually grow up through the battle with the frontier Qiang people, and finally obtain a strong military power. At this time, Xiang Yu also obtained the army he wanted in the battle with the Southern Huns rebels .

And obviously this is not the end, but just the beginning of a series of troubled and chaotic situations in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

When Xiang Yu was victorious and preparing to return victoriously, he received a letter from Dong Zhuo. The content of the letter was roughly about the large-scale uprising of the Yellow Turban bandits. I was very happy with the news of victory, and hoped that Xiang Yu could follow him to destroy the Yellow Turban Army.

After reading Dong Zhuo's letter, Xiang Yu sighed softly. He remembered the conversation he had with Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army that day. They used the strength of the army for their own use, but finally dispelled this idea. The peasant uprising army may be very large in number, but their combat effectiveness is too weak.

They themselves are farmers who have been starving to death for a long time without enough food. Their physical fitness must be very poor. Among them, there are even a large proportion of old, weak, sick and disabled children. Grass-roots military generals with sufficient experience, no matter how large in number, are nothing more than mobs, and it will be difficult to accomplish anything after all.

Moreover, the peasant uprising army of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the previous life also left a lot of bad impressions on Xiang Yu. He knew that most of these peasants who lacked sufficient education were extremely short-sighted, and they could easily unite for temporary interests. It is also easy to split and instantly collapse due to the uneven distribution of temporary benefits. These peasant armies are neither good opponents nor good teammates. It will be very dangerous to pin your hopes on them.

But Xiang Yu is actually not very willing to participate in the massacre of these peasant troops. Yes, in his opinion, the regular army of the Eastern Han Dynasty or the army he led, basically faced a group of peasant-dominated troops. It is equivalent to a tiger entering a flock of sheep. No matter how many sheep there are, no matter how powerful they may look, they are still a flock of sheep after all.

One of sheep's great weaknesses is conformity, which makes it easy for a peasant army like a sheep to be defeated on a large scale on the battlefield. Even if a small part of the battlefield is killed and collapsed, it is likely to switch quickly All-round defeat of the entire army, and the lack of sufficient training and actual combat experience as well as well-trained battlefield commanders will lead to this situation.

Thinking of this, Xiang Yu is not in a hurry. Of course he will not disobey Dong Zhuo's orders, but he will not rush to keep up with Dong Zhuo's marching pace. Go again after a while.

(End of this chapter)